Rad Byerly has been appointed by Governor Bill Ritter to serve a three year term on the Colorado Air Quality Control Commission, and confirmed by the Colorado Senate. EPA has delegated to Colorado its legal authority under the Clean Air Act, so the AQCC is the rule-making body for the State. Through his vote on the commission Rad will be making decisions on regulations based in part on scientific information, and bringing this experience to the Center.

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Paul Komor, CSTPR Faculty Affiliate, shared in the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, awarded to Al Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) “for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change". The IPCC consists of a large number of scientists and researchers – including Paul, who co-authored a chapter on “Mitigation Options for Human Settlements” in the IPCC’s Second Assessment Report.